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For enrollment questions contact Preschool@HopkinsSchools.org or 952-988-5000. For billing questions contact Liz Reynolds at liz.reynolds@hopkinsschools.org or 952-988-5000.
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Information regarding before and after school programs for middle school students.
Let loose your inner watercolor artist! Learn step by step how to paint quick and easy landscapes with watercolor. You will be surprised how you can really capture the atmosphere of a scene. Leave this class knowing the techniques needed for painting skies, backgrounds, foregrounds, and trees. Brushes and watercolors will be provided by the instructor. Students should bring a watercolor pad of paper to class. The instructor covers the many different paper options in the first class.
Vanessa Merry moved to Florence, Italy at the age of eighteen to study the methods of the great masters in painting, drawing, and printmaking at Palazzo Spinelli. From here she continued her education and exploration of the human-figure, still-life’s, and landscapes at Atelier de Chimere in France where she enjoyed Plein-Air painting in the French countryside. She moved back to the United States where she attended and graduated from the University of Minnesota in Visual Arts and Art History.
She has been actively involved in the Twin Cities art scene for many years. Vanessa Merry has won several awards for her paintings in local galleries. She has worked with many different galleries and art organizations in the cities.
Vanessa currently enjoys creating works of art in many different styles but finds herself happiest when she is in the classroom teaching others all the skills that she has acquired in her studies.
Vanessa Merry
